Updating Dante’s Inferno
How to perform a makeover on one of literature’s former gems
Let’s face it, Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia has had a good run. Longer than Agatha Christie’s execrable The Mousetrap, longer than Andrew Loyd Webber’s foremost crime against human decency Cats, and longer than the King James Bible. But in recent years it’s not aged well and thus it is somewhat overdue for what in…